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North Omaha Summer Arts (NOSA) presents An Arts Crawl 8

Who: North Omaha Summer Arts (NOSA)

What: Annual Arts Crawl

When: Friday, August 9 from 6 to 9 pm.

Where: North 30th Street Corridor in North Omaha

Why: For the love of art and community

How: Walk it or drive it

North Omaha Summer Arts (NOSA) presents An Arts Crawl 8

North Omaha Summer Arts (NOSA) concludes its 2019 season with the Arts Crawl from 6 to 9.p.m. on Friday, August 9 with exhibitions and demonstrations on and off the North 30th Street Corridor.

This progressive art exhibition right in the heart of North Omaha is a family-friendly community event. It is free of charge. The Arts Crawl is in its eighth year after taking a hiatus last year.

Whether you walk it or drive it, the NOSA Arts Crawl has something for everyone between six venues encompassing ethnic folk art, icons, quilts, paintings, drawings, photographs and sculpture. The makers include immigrant and refugee artists and Native American artists as well as emerging and established African-American artists from the North O community. Works by adult and youth artists will be featured.

At some venues, artists will make work and describe their process. Live music and dance add to the mix at other venues. It’s a chance to meet artists. purchase work and learn about under the radar talents.

If you work up an appetite and need to quench your thirst, there’s finger food and refreshments, on the house, at each stop.

The venues are: 

Charles B. Washington Branch Library

2868 Ames Avenue (Just east of 30th and Ames)

Kicking things off is a 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. opening reception that showcases an exhibition of handmade quilts by the Omaha group, Quilters We Are.

Metropolitan Community College Fort Omaha Campus

30th and Fort Streets

Building 21 (The Mule Barn) – Expanding the Circle” exhibition features art by Native American students and their mentors.

Building 23 (Career and Academic Skills Center) – An exhibition displaying MCC’s collection of art.from various African nations.

Church of the Resurrection

3004 Belvedere Blvd. (30th and Kansas)

Noted Icon artist Jane Tan Creti of Omaha will be on hand to display her work and to educate about the meaning and making of icons.

Nelson Mandela School

6316 North 30th Street (30th and Curtis)

View works by adult artists and by Nelson Mandela students.

Trinity Lutheran Church/Heartland Family Service

6340 North 30th Street (30th and Redick)

An exhibition of contemporary and traditional art by established and emerging artists, including work from members of refugee communities in Omaha.

Check out the Arts Crawl Facebook event page.

Follow NOSA at https://www.facebook.com/NorthOmahaSummerArts.

Join Friends Who Like North Omaha Summer Arts at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1012756932152193,

For more information, call NOSA director Pamela Jo Berry at 402-502-4669.

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North Omaha Summer Arts is a completely free, community-based arts festival now in its ninth year. It includes a gospel concert in the park, writing workshops and retreats, pop-up art events, and the Arts Crawl. The festival runs from June through mid-August. NOSA founder and director Pamela Jo Berry is a North Omaha resident, mixed-media artist and art educator.